The PR Stunt That Allowed Women to Smoke Cigarettes in Public
The World’s first Public Relations Campaign
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5 min readMay 10, 2021
The 1920s was a time when US women were fighting against the ideals of patriarchy and boycotting the very notions of inequality. During the same time, capitalism-induced thinking of George Washington Hill, the then President of American Tobacco Co. was fixated on the expansion of the…